"Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve."
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"An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer."
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"Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at writing."
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"I really believe that fiction functions best when stories are allowed to develop in an organic way, so I didn't set out to deliver a specific message."
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"Who knows how fast a second-guess can travel? Who has ever measured the exact speed of regret?"
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"To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first."
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"I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different—unimagined, unprepared for, unknown."
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"A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself."
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"My goal was just to tell the unlikely story in a way that would feel as convincing as possible."
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